The past year has been the start of something that bubbled up from the past.  April 12th, 1861, the American Civil War started.  1955, the Civil Rights Movement started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.  11:07, April 19th, 2015, Freddy Gray died after actions of police brutality in Baltimore.  This country has gone through civil rights protests, and if history needs to repeat itself it will, but the police department needs to realize that something has to change now.  The people in Baltimore have spoken. But now we have to act.

Our country has had a war with racism for over 200 years.  And it is still going on today. Every eight hours a black man dies in the U.S. because of police brutality (history.com)  The police organization has been reckless with dealing with the police who have been caught and accused of brutality on the streets in my opinion.  Each recruit goes through training to deal with intense situations on the streets.  They are licensed with the trust of the organization, the city, the state, and the country, to do the right thing and act responsibly, in intense times.  And the ones that don’t follow the rules, don’t get in trouble, don’t get evicted, and claim to be innocent.  They are playing tennis with people’s lives.

Others might say that the police are acting in the right way.  The opposing side of this argument say that the police were doing their job, and were really enforcing the law.  The police were doing their job, in the wrong way.  Every officer carries a gun on their belt and that weapon is only used as a last resort to get things under control.  In most cases of police action, the gun is really used for control and order, not to fire, unless something rash is happening.  That is why this is a problem.  The police are being too brutal with minor situations, then claiming ridiculous things and lying to the people who trust the police to protect them.

I am calling for action.  Something has to be done about things like this.  The earth is our planet.  It has given us many wonderful things.  The sun illuminates our sky.  The trees give us air to breathe.  And the elements uranium and plutonium are split to create guns.  Not for harming and abusing power, but to keep peace and order in the world.  There will always be a group of people that abuse their power.  There is something we can do about this problem.  These things can be fixed.  It is not impossible, but it is very improbable.

We could actually make the officers who have abused their power over society and evict them for their crimes against humanity.  We could force the officers to go through training to retrain their minds to do the right thing.  Or we could simply ban the officers from the organization and make them lose their credibility and recruit someone with a better background and expertise.  If people as young as me have noticed that there is something that can be done about these people, than someone with higher power and responsibility better have realized this same thing.  Baltimore is rioting in the streets, getting attention through violence.  That is the wrong kind of attention.  But all it means is that some action is urgent.  Listen to the voices of Baltimore.  They have something to say, and so do I.